Cubans that are good when smoked young?

[tommy]

ButterdNutPie!!!!!

[butternutsquashpie]

I would actually say that all Cubans are good to smoke when young. Not my words, but apparently, now is the golden time to smoke Cubans without needing 3+ years of ageing that is normally done by the retailers.
Relish in that fact. Fresh Cuban cigars have a distinct harshness / greenery to them that gives you a kick. But I particularly enjoy the kick when in moderate doses. What it comes down to is some cigars are more "worth" it to enjoy when young (Bolivars, Partagas) while others are not worth the price of admission (Cohibas are way too expensive to enjoy young).

Young, Moderate, Old, all Cuban cigars have their own twang when smoked at their respective ages. Generally, they all get better with age. Just some more than others.

Which ones more? Find out for yourself! That's the joy of the cigar world!

[Nick2021]

Recent BPC, MC5, HUPC, HDM Epicure De Luxe, and Sancho Panza Beli....all have smoked very good young imo

[tommy]

I smoke LGC ned4 with no age or less than a year and they're yummy. By the time the box is smoked they're starting to change anyway.
As a side note, you can nearly always fond a box of what you want with a year on it and depending on brand you can find older. Just ask your vendor for a box code list and pick from that.

[tommy]

It's up to you realy to ask the year of the cigars when your buying
if buying in tubes stick a sticky label on the tube with the year and month
or if not in tubes make a note on a pad.

Or buy dot stickers and write date on. Some people even us biro to write the year on the cap. It's being cut off anyway so no drama.

[smokey joe]

I smoked a Bolivar Royal Coronas last month out of a box dated April 2015 which was good. I expect they'll get even better with time, which is nice.

[cj121]

I'd echo points regarding the PCs (and TPCs) in that they smoke acceptably. I've found that revisiting a box of Bolivar PCs with about 20 months on them, that I actually preferred them younger as there was more strength of flavour. I personally liked that. The handful of under 12 months old cigars that I have smoked over the last year or so have been acceptable but have always given away their youth towards the last third: bitterness being one trait. Whilst there is a lot of opinion supporting Cubans can now generally be smoked young, I still feel that a minimum of twelve months helps the cause, and even then we've got to suck it and see

[Sligub]

Cubans that are good when smoked young?

Bhk aren't pre aged RE, LE, reserva and gran reserva use aged tobacco but not aged after rolling. Most petite corona sizes smoke reasonably well young. Onto your sub question there is only one cuban manufacturer and generally they don't pre age the exception being the anejado line that started last year to poor reviews.

[Krist]

Cohiba BHK line seem to smoke well on the younger side.

I'm sure they have a couple of years on them before they're boxed. almost like the anejados.

I found fresh Bolivars from 2014 to be lovely, can't go wrong with a BBF of any age in my eyes!

[Simon G]

The smaller Cubans should smoke well with at least a year on them. Behike are fine out the box. A couple years+ will see a Cuban smoke well

[EarwaxUK]

Thanks [MENTION=13416639]TonyN[/MENTION], very useful advice

[TonyN]

Not wanting to hijack this thread already but I'd also want to know how you know how old your cigars are when you buy them. Just seems to me that it's hard to say "young" when I've no idea of the age of anything in my humidor

It's up to you realy to ask the year of the cigars when your buying
if buying in tubes stick a sticky label on the tube with the year and month
or if not in tubes make a note on a pad.

[TonyN]

Not wanting to hijack this thread already but I'd also want to know how you know how old your cigars are when you buy them. Just seems to me that it's hard to say "young" when I've no idea of the age of anything in my humidor

Like npalfrey said if you buy a box it will have a date on the bottom
if buying singles the tobacconist should be able to tell you the year from which box he picked your singles from.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Cohiba BHK line seem to smoke well on the younger side.

[nplymouth]

For Cubans you've got a box date but also following the above question you would want to know how long they have rested for at the factory which I believe is between 4-12 weeks?

So, to that end... I could have a October 2015 box that was rolled in July, so by Christmas they are 6 months old?

The list could become exhaustive if brands age for different Vitolas!


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